BLUEBERRY CAKE

Hey friends!  Ali, here.  I’m truly excited to introduce you to 1 among the coolest 15-year-olds I know, who collaborated with me because the baker/writer/photographer behind today’s post.  Her identify is Maya, and we've long past to church collectively for years.  But I merely currently discovered out that — apart from being a delightful, smart, kind, and super-talented teenager — she can also be a most important foodie and gifted cook dinner who desires of being a chef.  So I had her come over a number of weeks ago, and we spent the day cooking and baking and studying about photography and meals running a blog and chatting about life.  And alongside the way, we also occurred to bake this heavily stellar blueberry cake.  So proper correct here to inform you about it today, please welcome guest-blogger…Maya!

INGREDIENTS: BLUEBERRY CAKE INGREDIENTS: 3 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon baking soda pinch of salt 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened 2 cups granulated sugar 6 eggs 1 cup plain Greek yogurt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, store-bought or homemade 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 2 pints (4 cups) recent blueberries GLAZE INGREDIENTS: 1 cup powdered sugar 2-3 tablespoons milk 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract DIRECTIONS: TO MAKE THE CAKE: Preheat oven to 325 ranges F. Grease and flour a bundt pan, and set aside. (See ideas underneath for the method to nicely grease/flour a pan. Also, I used a 10-cup huge bundt pan.) In a huge bowl, whisk collectively flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt till combined. Using an electrical mixer with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar collectively on medium-high velocity for about 3 minutes, or till pale and fluffy. Reduce velocity to medium-low. Add vanilla, almond extract, and eggs (one at a time). Continue beating for an further 2 minutes, scraping down the pan as soon as or twice so that everything is nicely mixed. Add in half of the flour mixture, and beat on low velocity till simply combined. Add in half of the Greek yogurt, and beat on low velocity till simply combined. Repeat with the last flour combination and Greek yogurt, beating till simply combined. (Do now not overbeat.) Fold within the blueberries by means of way of hand, booking a dozen or so further berries at the side. Sprinkle the reserved blueberries calmly round the backside of the keen bundt pan. Then pour batter calmly into the pan on higher of them, and unfold the higher of the batter with a spoon till it's smooth.. Bake for 60 to 75 minutes or till a toothpick inserted close to middle of cake comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack for a minimum of 30 minutes, or till the steel pan is lukewarm to the contact (and now not hot). Invert the cake onto a cooling rack or serving dish, and allow it cool completely. Drizzle with the glaze. TO MAKE THE GLAZE: Whisk meals collectively in a small bowl till smooth. If the glaze is simply too thick, upload further milk. If it’s too thin, upload further powdered sugar.To grease and flour a bundt pan, start by means of way of liberally greasing the inner of the pan with cooking spray so that 100 percent of the inner floor is covered.  Add a number of tablespoons of flour into the pan, and gently turn and pat the pan till the flour covers each inch of the greased surfaces (adding further flour if needed).  Then, invert the pan and supply the higher of it a number of smart pats to shake off any excess.

Hey all, I’m Maya! I had the wonderful chance to shadow Ali for a day and cook dinner with her. I love to cook. It all began once more in preschool whilst the academics requested the noted question, “What do you desire to be whilst you develop up?”. While all of the boys had their hearts set on being knowledgeable athletes and the ladies have been gambling veterinarian and teacher, I proudly announced I might desire to be a “cooker.” My love for blending flavors and sharing smart meals with of us was kindled at a younger age. I might be discovered perched up on a stool with an outsized apron and a paper chef hat, blending up salads or flipping grilled cheese. As the years went on my cook dinner guide sequence grew and so did my wisdom of cooking.

So proper correct here I am, 15 years old, equipped to read further concerning the vast international of flavors and recipes. Ali taught me all concerning the meals weblog and alongside the method I discovered some different useful ideas (like the method to nicely melt butter and grease a bundt pan).  And we made a delicious Blueberry Bundt Cake together. (Oh yes, a buuundt cake, you realize the cake with a gap in it for all who take pleasure within the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding!) But I guarantee you, even concept it’s lacking it’s middle it's nonetheless as tasty as a standard cake!

We dumped a host of recent blueberries on this batter and with all these candy berries in there it makes the excellent summer season cake.  We promise!

Now blueberries are one among my favourite berries, but I like choosing them even better. There is a smart berry patch proper outdoor of Kansas City that my household and I love to pass to within the summertime. It’s hot and difficult work to discover the finest berries, but it’s all of the time fun to be collectively with my family…AND we come once more with bags and bags of recent blueberries to become pies, cakes and cakes!

So in the event you happen to are in search of anything fun to do including your household or chums this summer, I mean discovering a native berry patch, choosing some yummy berries and coming once more dwelling to make use of these juicy blueberries to make this vast blueberry cake!

Here’s how Ali and I made it:

The first step is to make the batter. This is your smart ol’ fundamental pound cake batter, with vanilla and our mystery ingredient, almond extract (which is going vast with the blueberries).  Mix your batter till it’s smart and smooth, then gently fold NULL entire pints of recent blueberries in.

Then follow one among the counsel Ali taught me. Spray your bundt pan down with cooking spray after which sprinkle some flour at the pan and switch it round so the entire inner of the pan is protected with flour. This facilitates the cake now not to stick with the pan whilst you are taking it out.

When we took our cake out of the oven it smelled delicious and seemed even tastier! We needed to be affected person and watch for it to cool earlier than inverted it onto a cake pan. Then we oohed and awed over the blueberry crammed cake. Finally we drizzled it with a easy powdered sugar glaze.
That glaze was absolutely the icing at the cake.  ;)

And appear what we discovered inner the cake.  Blueberries galore!!!

Gotta love these blueberries.

And there you've it…a scrumptious summertime cake to share including your household and friends! I wish you are taking pleasure in making this cake as a lot as I did. Enjoy!

Thanks once more to Maya for supporting cook, write, and picture this publish with me.  She did a vast job, didn’t she?  :)  ~Ali

BLUEBERRY CAKE
This blueberry cake recipe is moist, flavorful, and literally overflowing with recent and delicious blueberries!

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